Centre for Hellenic Studies Public Events
Through its regular weekly seminars, colloquia, public lectures and international conferences, the Centre for Hellenic Studies is a concentrated force for the advancement of research in all aspects of Hellenic culture.
All its activities are free, open to the public and designed to be accessible to a wide audience.
Public Events Diary 2012-13
Saturday 9 June 2012
Workshop
An Immortal Debate: Philosophy and Ideology between Late Byzantium and Modern Greece
Monday 18 June 2012
Reception
Lentakis Award Reception
Saturday 30 June 2012
Workshop
Cultural Olympiad 2012: the ancient Games from new perspectives: Representing Victory
Past Events:
Tuesday 4 October 2011
Seminar
Alessandra Bucossi (KCL): A Latin theologian at the Constantinopolitan court: the intriguing case of Hugo Eteriano
Monday 10 October 2011
Seminar
Professor Roderick Beaton (King’s College London):
Re-imagining Greek antiquity in 1821: Shelley’s Hellas in its literary and political context
Thursday 13 October
Exhibition Opening
A Brighter Hellas: Rediscovering Greece in the 19th Century
Tuesday 18 October 2011
Seminar
Rembrandt Duits (Warburg): A Byzantine icon in Florence: the Bargello
Monday 24 October 2011
Seminar
Peter Mackridge (Oxford/Kings): Theatre in the Colonels’ Greece: impressions of an eye-witness
Monday 31 October 2011
Seminar
Greek-Turkish Encounters
Dr Constadina Charalambous (European University Cyprus): "Whether you see them as friends or enemies you need to know their language": Turkish language learning in a Greek-Cypriot school
Tuesday 1 November 2011
Seminar
Mihailo Popovic (Vienna):New insights into the history of Balkan fairs in the historical region of Macedonia (13th-16th centuries)
Monday 14 November 2011
Seminar
Niketas Siniossoglou (King’s): Hellenic identity: essentialist and anti-essentialist approaches
Wednesday 16 November 2011
Lecture
Greek Archaeological Committee Lecture
The Monument of Augustus for Actium: "The Victory City" and the beginnings of Roman Imperial Art
Tuesday 22 November 2011
Seminar
Marek Jankowiak (Oxford): From Orthodoxy to heresy: why was Monotheletism
condemned?
Sunday 27 November 2011
Lecture- held at the University of Athens, 'Kostis Palamas' Building
2nd Koraes lecture Dr. Karim Arafat: The search for Pausanias: fifteen years on
(joint event with KCLA, Greece)
Monday 28 November 2011
Seminar
Klearchos Kyriakides (University of Hertfordshire): The rule of law and ethics in contemporary Greece
Thursday 1 December 2011
Reception
Anglo-Hellenic League
Special event for members of the Anglo-Hellenic League. Admission by ticket only. More information available on their website.
Tuesday 6 December 2011
Seminar
Ioannis Stouraitis (Vienna): Byzantine conceptions of warfare in the time of the Crusades: Holy war?
Monday 12 December 2011
Seminar
James Pettifer (Oxford): 'W.M.Leake in Epirus 1804-1809 - Espionage and
Text
Tuesday 24 January 2012
Late Antique & Byzantine Studies Seminar
Piotr Grotowski (Krakow): Sicily of the North? Orthodox painters in the royal service of the first Jagiellonians
Wednesday 25 January 2012
Book Launch
Greek Cinema: Texts, Histories, Identities
Friday 27 & Saturday 28 January 2012
Conference - held at the British School at Athens
Between two worlds: the British Council and Anglo-Greek literary interactions 1945-1955
Saturday 28 January 2012
Workshop
Celebrating Early Applied Arts: Textiles
Monday 30 January 2012
Modern Greek Seminar
Mr Stephen Duckworth (London), Edward Lear and his Cretan drawings
Thursday 2 February 2012
Lecture
21st Annual Runciman Lecture
Looking at the Athenian Acropolis: from modern times to antiquity
Tuesday 7 February 2012
Late Antique & Byzantine Studies Seminar
Maja Kominko (Oxford): Illlumination in Syriac manuscripts - who dunnit?
Monday 13 February 2012
Modern Greek Seminar
Dr Rowena Fowler (Oxford), Greek in Joyce: Joyce in Greek
Tuesday 14 - Friday 17 February 2012
Conference
International Week: The Bonds of Language
Saturday 18 February 2012
Workshop
Libya Matters
Saturday 25 February 2012
Workshop
Celebrating Early Applied Arts: Ceramics
Tuesday 28 February 2012
Late Antique & Byzantine Studies Seminar
Eleni Dimitriadou (London): Art and ceremonial in middle Byzantine Constantinople: The case of the southwest vestibule mosaic of Hagia Sophia
Monday 5 March 2012
Modern Greek Seminar
Professor Georgia Farinou-Malamatari (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Alexandros Papadiamantis and New Woman Fiction: His translation of Sarah Grand's, "The Heavenly Twins"
Tuesday 13 March 2012
Late Antique & Byzantine Studies Seminar
Rowena Loverance (London): An Edwardian Elgin? Harold Peto's Byzantine marbles
Friday 16 & Saturday 17 March
Performance
The Ballad of the Bridge and Lysistrata by the Theatrical Workshop of the University of Cyprus
Monday 19 March 2012
Modern Greek Seminar
Sappho Xenakis (Centre for Sociological Research on Law and Penal Institutions (CESDIP), Paris) 'State and Public Punitiveness in Contemporary Greece'
Tuesday 27 March 2012 ***CANCELLED***
Late Antique & Byzantine Studies Seminar
Antonio Rigo (Venice): Palamas' theology of mystical experience: patristic and philosophical background of the concept of vision
Seminar organized with the Department of Philosophy
Saturday 31 March 2012
Workshop
Celebrating Early Applied Arts: Mosaics